Either all members are forced to develop using the same operating system, or a cross platform netplay module is being developed first.Īccording to whether the users need the same os, it’s hard to find a reference that confirms it. If this is true, then there are two ways to continue the project. Therefore the netplay module of ZSNES is assumed only to be working with network gaming within the same platform. The problem was that the C function gethostbyname() returned null because of the wireless network address wasn’t associated with the host name.Īn experiment trying to establish a connection between a Linux and a Windows ZSNES version revealed an error saying incompatible versions.

The /etc/hosts file in my operating system was badly written. It turned out that there were no bugs in the code at all. I will save the old versions of MinGW and Nasm because they took some time to find and then install an older 32bit version of Windows.

I tried making NASM.exe compatible with older versions of Windows but it didn’t make any difference. I haven’t yet installed the libraries zlib and libpng because I didn’t even get the assembler to compile anything because of my OS being 64bit. Again I had to search for this particular version and make sure that one was installed instead of the latest one.

So I searched the web finding this page that says I also need the special version of MinGW 3.2.0-rc3. When I finally found it, compiling still didn’t work. The install.txt that comes with the sources of ZSNES v1.42 says that I need version 0.98.39 of NASM. Just adding the full path to bin of both MinGW and GNUWIN32 did the trick.Īgain having the latest version of the tools didn’t lead anywhere. When all tools are properly installed, the PATH environment variable of the system must be properly modified. You need to place the NASM.exe file inside the bin directory of MinGW. MSVC++ requires DirectX to compile ZSNES and I don’t want to struggle with it. MinGW uses GCC which were used earlier to compile ZSNES in Linux and therefore is probably trustworthy. I choose the latter alternative because of two things. Either using Microsofts Visual C++ or Minimalist Gnu for Windows. There are several ways to develop ZSNES from Windows.

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